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Horizons: Crisis and Social Transformation in Community-Engaged Research
Horizons is an in-person conference (with virtual engagement options) and community gathering space for knowledge generation, mobilization and collective imagination. We are all living through one of the most disruptive and transformative eras in living memory—Horizons offers a space to explore the history and futures of community-engaged research (CER). learn more →
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Youth for Climate Action: Leading Participatory Action Research in Motion
As we navigate the multi-pronged challenges that have emerged as a result of climate change and the environmental crisis, it is clear that certain populations will feel the impacts more clearly than others. Children and young people are one of these groups, but they are also structurally excluded from political decision making to affect change within the normal avenues. They are also often excluded from driving the research and research agendas that inform decision-making. This session explores this experience and walks participants through some of the participatory processes that it included. learn more →
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Tammara Soma on Reimagining Food Systems in Communities for Below the Radar
On an episode of the podcast, Below the Radar, Tammara Soma and Am Johal discuss the connectionions between food planning, community-engaged research, waste management and climate justice—and the ways in which we can redefine systems to create a more just and sustainable future of food. learn more →
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Joseph Mwesigwa Ssendikaddiwa on the experience of being a CERi graduate fellow
This blog is authored by Joseph Mwesigwa Ssendikaddiwa, a SFU Faculty of Health Sciences MSc. graduate and a member of CERi's 2020/21 Graduate Research Fellowship cohort. learn more →
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Namiko Kunimoto on Exploring Japanese Culture and History Through Visual Art for Below the Radar
Namiko Kunimoto recently spoke with Am Johal for the Below the Radar podcast to discuss Japanese imperialism through the lens of art, racial equity within universities and taiko drumming within diasporic communities. learn more →
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Resources
This collection of resources is aimed at supporting community members, SFU faculty and students in developing interdisciplinary knowledge and research skills that can respond to community needs and benefit communities involved in research. learn more →
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Gardening Initiative Helps to Address Food Insecurity
Food insecurity is a multifaceted issue affecting Canadian households and communities across the Nation. One community has been taking steps to change that. learn more →
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Community Resource Handbook
This handbook is designed to help community organizations gain a practical understanding of community-engaged research. This how-to guide walks you through the process of community-engaged research and shows its value to communities and the people working alongside them. learn more →
Participation. Cooperation. Social Transformation.
CERi promotes principles of participation, cooperation, social transformation and knowledge translation to lift up and strengthen the capacity of SFU’s researchers and students, to engage respectfully and ethically with community members.
Research that supports positive community change.
Based out of the new 312 Main co-working space in downtown Vancouver, CERi is SFU's first research infrastructure developed for the purpose of extending community-engaged research to provincial, national and international communities.
Simon Fraser University’s Community-Engaged Research Initiative (CERi) is a new university-wide strategic initiative of the Office of the Vice-President, Research.
LATEST POSTS
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August 17, 2021
August 17, 2021
On an episode of the podcast, Below the Radar, Tammara Soma and Am Johal discuss the connectionions between food planning, community-engaged research, waste management and climate justice—and the ways in which we can redefine systems to create a more just and sustainable future of food.
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July 27, 2021
July 27, 2021
Namiko Kunimoto recently spoke with Am Johal for the Below the Radar podcast to discuss Japanese imperialism through the lens of art, racial equity within universities and taiko drumming within diasporic communities.
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July 08, 2021
July 08, 2021
This blog is authored by Joseph Mwesigwa Ssendikaddiwa, a SFU Faculty of Health Sciences MSc. graduate and a member of CERi's 2020/21 Graduate Research Fellowship cohort.
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April 13, 2021
April 13, 2021
This blog is authored by Stefanie Machado, a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Health Sciences and a participant of CERi's Community-Engaged Research Funding Program, and Elmira Tayyar, an MPH candidate in the FHS at SFU, and the Assistant Project Coordinator of IRIS.
PROGRAMS
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DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 26. CERi’s Graduate Fellowship Program is designed to facilitate community-engaged research through a combination of financial support, mentorship, peer learning and professional development.
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CERi’s Community-Engaged Research Funding Program is a grant program available to SFU faculty and graduate students.
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In partnership with Vancouver Island University, the University of Northern British Columbia, and University of British Columbia, the Simon Fraser University Library coordinates a program to provide staff of charitable and non-profit organizations in British Columbia with access to the latest research and knowledge in their fields.
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CERi’s Researchers-in-Residence program supports and promotes SFU faculty members actively practicing community-engaged research or whose research involves CER methods.
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